How do you think your graduate educational experience will be different from your undergraduate experience? How would you describe a graduate learning community? What would be the key components of a learning community and how might they be different from key components of an undergraduate learning community? Are communication and collaboration expectations the same in a graduate learning community? Explain your response and provide examples.

My graduate educational experience will be very different from my undergraduate educational experience, because in my undergraduate studies, i learn mostly under an academic environment, where we only learn by experimenting and researching. Example Thermodynamics experimental analysis. But in my graduate education, we learn mostly on the job, by practicing and memorizing the best practices. Example Using heat exchangers in a flow station.

A graduate learning community is a class of people who has learnt about a problem and a solution from the undergraduate level, and now applying the solution to solve the problem. Example NASA, Chevron, ExxonMobil, ... etc.

The key component of a graduate learning community is that, learning is by practical experiences. Example, an operator in a control room. While in undergraduate learning community, the key component is experimental experiences and research. Example are our assignment and project work.

Collaboration and communication in a graduate learning community and undergraduate learning community are not the same. Because in a graduate learning community, communication are always official. Example mailing your manager or colleague. But in an undergraduate learning community, communication are always social and informal. Example, dropping a note for your classmates.